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Monthly Archives: January 2004

Chris R If you’ve ever spent time in an Apple store, the thing that grabs you is the sleekness of it. No CompUSA here, it is ultra modern with people wearing black shirts with white Apples on them. Sleek geeks if you will. I purchased a 20 inch iMac with great fanfare, quite excited about […]

Brian, Peter, Joan, and Michael View larger image Matthew typed, “ playstation 2 grinding noise,” into Google and found multiple sites, mostly message boards, with probable repairs for his game. He chose the repair that looked most promising, two pages of instructions beginning with, “This will fix your problem. You’re going to be surprised when […]

Helen Josephine and Leroy O’connell, Malcolm and Helen Virginia Miller. Helen in her wedding dress. View larger image

Diane watched Bowling for Columbine Friday night, and Saturday morning deviated from her usual religious-like devotion to the Globe to describe most of the important scenes. One of them, the welfare mother who drives eighty miles to her two minimum wage jobs while her six year old, home without proper supervision, shoots his six year […]

Matthew and I worked for another half day on the BMW, tryiing to solve the starting problem. If we jump it, the car starts, but left to its own battery it cranks away in descending gasps. Dimitry suggested that we change both ground wires, and the only one left was the battery negative to the […]

Adam Kibbe Our family gets together but infrequently. Come high school age, the children of families such as ours were sent to school in the United States from our expatriate home in Venezuela, gone from the nucleus for many months at a time. With college, that gap widened to years, and as if by habit, […]

Joan arrives and Brian acquires an alert, intelligent look. I don’t believe the two events were related. View larger image Matthew told us tonight, about walking home the other afternoon. He was near the bend on Central St, maybe a half mile from home, when a a guy in a white sedan pulls to a […]